What is the test for the right of jury trial in civil cases at common law?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Armster v. U.S. Dist. Court for the Cent. Dist. of California, 792 F.2d 1423 (9th Cir. 1986):

The right of jury trial in civil cases at common law is a basic and fundamental feature of our system of federal jurisprudence which is protected by the Seventh Amendment. A right so fundamental and sacred to the citizen ... should be jealously guarded by the courts.

Jacob v. New York City, 315 U.S. 752, 752-53, 62 S.Ct. 854, 854, 86 L.Ed. 1166 (1942).

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